Promoting Healthy Communities with Pam Belgard

So a lot of my work has been with actually I end up working in health promotion because that’s a passion of mine so I worked with several native or IHS or tribal clinics in their health promotion department producing wellness messages of all kinds I mean I worked for the Navajo it was northern Naval Medical Center in Shiprock we put a health related wellness message on everything t-shirts bumper stickers billboards on the radio on television because we would buy spots PSA time because the Navajo Nation is as big as a state you know and so there was several stations that served the there minal ination so they would buy PSA time and put the health promotion messages on there but you name it there we put messages on it buttons I mean you name it and then I also worked at other I worked at Indian Health Council Clinic which is in North San Diego County in Southern California San Diego County’s a huge County it says that’s as big as the state itself and so they divided it they serve native people in northern San Diego County and southern San Diego County and I worked for a clinic that served a consortium of tribes in North San Diego County and that was also in their community health side and then I worked for Haskell Health Center also on their health promotions Community Health side and I did and I was I also did I have a second degree or second on black belt in Taekwondo and so I am really into wellness and health and so I end up working in community health in those areas but I would try to combine media in there too because you know one thing I found was you can go out and teach a class you because I had to teach it in different communities I’d have to I had a had like a Ford Expedition with all my exercise equipment and I’d go to the different communities unload do this do the class load back up hit it you know go to another up in the mountains to another community and man you get wiped out just taking your all your equipment and just going to these communities and you know it’s really tiring and I said you know I think I’m gonna go back to putting it in on media again because you can reach a lot more people I had produced a program called it was a diabetes prevention diabetes management project called res robux for couch potato skins and there were several components of it we had we had received this is when Clinton was in office and he was really Pro Health Promotion and diabetes prevention and so the IHS facility I worked for had received a good grant and part of that money went for that and so and then we also raised money from elsewhere and we distributed for free any native person or organization can receive a free copy and I threw as much as I could on there was an edutainment section there’s an actual exercise section we interviewed everybody that was on it you know their journeys and wellness and they all shared because everybody has their own journey and it and it something in the viewing audience they’re gonna key into something I mean it’s not going to be the same for everybody but something is going to really inspire them or they’ll key into it so I tried to interview all the people that were in the in the video and share they shared their journey